You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

I always try to write about believable people.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

Things work out the way they're meant to

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.